Our Gro'wing Collections

KENNETH A. LOHF

Brown gift. Mr. James Oliver Broxxn has added a group of ap¬
proximately ten thousand letters and papers to the files of John
Cushman Associates, Inc., a literary agency which .Mr. Brown's
agency acquired in 1978. Included are extensive files of corre¬
spondence, dated 1967-1978, relating to Clive Barnes, Martha
Foley, Brendan Gill and Anthony A\'est.

Caiie gift. Txventx--one first editions of poetry have been pre¬
sented by .Mr. Melx-ille H. Cane (A.B., 1900; LL.B., 1903), among
which are four by T. S. Eliot: Ash Wednesday, 1930; The Culti¬
vation of Christmas Trees, 1956; Four Quartets, 1943; and .Mur¬
der in the Cathedral, 193 v Also included are fine copies of E. E.
Cummings, Santa Claus, 1946. and William Carlos Williams, The
Broken Span, 1941.

Cohii gift. The .Manuel Komroff Collection has been enriched by
the gift of txx'o important items from Mrs. Louis Henry Cohn:
the holograph manuscript of Komroff's nox'el, /, the Tiger, 207
pp., signed and dated April 1933, with extensive revision in ink
throughout; and the bound page proofs of his 1936 novel, ]\'ater-
loo, affectionatelx' inscribed by the author to .Mr. and .Mrs. Cohn
on July 3, 1936.

De I'ot gift. The artist and xvood-engraxcr John Dc Pol has do¬
nated a set of sixteen, keepsakes, each of which includes a signed
xx-ood-engraving by him with accompanying text, issued in lim¬
ited editions by the United States Banknote Corporation and the
Pandick Press from 1974 to 1978. Among Mr. De Pol's subjects
are Nexx- \ov\i Citv landmarks, portraits of historical and literary
figures, and x-iexx-s of Ireland.

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